Atom-bothering boffins have proved that a crystal previously only found in labs also occurs naturally - in outer space.
The scientists have found evidence that a 'quasicrystal' uncovered in Russia was actually part of a meteorite that fell to Earth rather than a material that was formed naturally on our home world. …

Thank-you!

Well.....

Pumping this sort of thing into inter-stellar space sounds like the sort of thing the human race might do to demonstrate our understandings of geometry and physics to whatever else might be out there. Could be that it wasnt naturally made after all and theres someone/thing thinking along the same lines ?

Pretty!

I'm sure I had this as lino...

Dr Science (metallurgy)

I have notice that the makeip of the slice picture that all the arranged particles are 5 or 10 or 25 on the most part. just 5 or 5 x 2=10 5 x 5= 25 with our lor looking to deep into the metrics the nex number should be 5 x10= 50. This is an interesting arrangement.

Fools!

There's More to be Learnt

The Russians seem to have no luck with rockets and space and Mars, but it seems they've scored a lucky discovery here. I have posted here a discussion of some of the controversy behind these extraterrestrial goodies.

Eastaliens

It's obviously an alien data storage device. Has anyone searched for a pattern in these crystals? If we can decode the pattern, we might even find that this is a box set of an alien soap opera. I hope they haven't lost the big finale from the last episode.

Just to be a pedant

Hrmm

No mention on any practical uses for this stuff.

Based on the fact that it is extra terrestial .... could it form part of an intergalactic communication device? if so could the fact that it was not "discovered" till recently have caused considerable distress to a visitor from 1982 in our calculations. He might have been able to call home then.